'40k bond is near impossible for a community club'

Range Rovers Football Club chairman Eddy Mcentire talks about long-held plans to develop the ground

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00:00They want a £40,000 bond,

00:02which for a little community football club like Range Rovers

00:06is near impossible.

00:07They've told us we can pay over 10 years,

00:12but even £4,500 a year is a bit too much to ask

00:16because all money that comes into the club

00:20is for the use of the children who use the football club,

00:25footballs, referees, you know, football kits.

00:28That's all, all our money goes on that.

00:30We was going to have a nursery there as well,

00:35which has since we found out isn't going to happen now

00:38because planning permission for that has taken so long

00:43that the original people who wanted to build the nursery now

00:47have had to pull out.

00:48It won't stop our plans because we are all,

00:51you know, we want to move on with this,

00:53but it will make it a lot harder,

00:56perhaps putting up the children's subs

00:58a couple of pounds a week,

01:00telling them how it will benefit in the long run

01:02that they'll have toilets, changing rooms,

01:04perhaps even a tea bar

01:06where they can get hot drinks in the winter.